Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-08

men are ready to take 5000, 900 in stock,
/ and Jacksbor0 will take $4,000 and
/ this without any effort TO have the stock
taken in Texas. Captain West says it ia
! the desire Of every one slOng the located
/ line to see the Fort Worth Western build
the road. The people are fri udly
( 10 the corporation, the towns, villages
and country people VII give bonuses,
right Of way, etc, end in every way as
sist the enterprise, but they want the
road The Fort Worth Western can build
nov with less expense than AZ any other
time. SprjngtOwn, JacksbOro, Graham,
Seymour Albany and Fort Worth are
ready. What says toe Fort Worth Western.
Engineers Of the St. Lonis, Arkansas
ard Texas returned from Grapevine last
night where they had been engaged dur
ing he day IN locating the depot and side
tracks. The engineers say inst enough
men and teams are now Camped near Fort
Worth to cover every mile Of Ihe line be-
tween Fort Worth and Grapevine, but
only few miles are being graded because
tie right Of way has not been secured. 4
party started 10 20 to work yesterday
about four miles out, but they were posi-
lively prohibited from going on the land
by The owner, the right Of way
never having been bought.
TIE company snj the contractors
a.e very sBXi0us to push the work and
urge speedy action on the par OF the
right Ct way committee. The teams and
The men are waiting, and horses and men
eating when not earning anything GTe
expensive Institutions.
=
Mr. John Il. UoXe is thoroughly &c
QUaiutsd with the movements 4 railroads
and knows Texas well. lie was inter
viewed By Galveston News reporter and
hsl no hes.tetion in saying that Fort
Worth would stand as the foremost CITY
Il the southwest. Here is portion Of
the Interview:
GLOW does the growth of North Texas
and the Panhandle compare with your
future eNpeCtations?"
"Tla developments Of the above named
localities" be answered, "Lave been
greater during the first six months Of this
year taan ! anticipated they would be st
The expiration Of 1890. And in fact I
bzve never seen such rapid development
in either Illinois or Kansas within the
-sst thirty years, comparatively speaking,
SIS nave seen il Northern Texas and the
PauIanale within the last fix months
This may seem rather eytTavagant as
sarI5n, but il is only necessary 10 make
a thorough Investigation, when the re-
mark viii be plausible enough"
Has not tne3 present development Of
Texas reached that magnitude, then,
when = VII compel the large trunk lines
Of The west AID northwest to follow in
the footsteps Of their Competitors:"
''Yes, slr; you have now struck the
right key note, and it viii oe in sUIf.pro-
lection, f for no other reason, that The
great trunk lines will be compelled 10 90
his
'Do you think that the Interstate com
merce lin has hsd anything 70 40
with this?"
''Not in tue least, for the reason that
the short maui TO tide water has been i'm
perattve ever since the Pilgrims landed
on Plymouth Rock and the American PEG.
pie have always been educated i'll this
principle, ard values have correspond
ingiy been estimated according TO the dis
lance 10 tide water"
"Wn7t city then do you think will
stand as the foremost in the southwest"
With merry twinkle in his eyes Mr..
Hoxie ssid he had no hesitation in saying
it would be Fort Worth, when babe fair
to become the great distributing point for
the west and southwest.
"This, however," he continued VIII not |
be detrimental to the interests If Dallas
or any other rival city; and as far as Gal
weston is concerned, Fort Worth will be
one Of the heaviest feeders. In other
words, l an tirm believer that the heavy
business Of the southwest will not be .
but " i'll become centraliZeI az some con-
Bank capital aud money
have already commenced this centralizs- I
ton. This capital comes from Boston
and different cities in the New England .
States, and Chicago, St, Louis and Kan
sas City.